As a reporter for the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer in 1980, Kahaner wrote the first in-depth exposé of the textile mills in the city and how they caused byssinosis, also known as 'brown lung disease,' in workers.
As a founding editor of Communications Daily and later as a Washington correspondent for Business Week, in addition to freelancing for other magazines and newspapers, he wrote some of the earliest articles about the new telecommunications landscape,[2][3][4][5] cell phones,[6][7][8][9] email,[10][11] and the internet, [12][13][14] culminating in two books, "The Phone Book," with co-author Alan Green (Penguin, 1983) and "On the Line: The Men of MCI – Who Took on AT&T, Risked Everything and Won!"
First, he wrote a monthly column about Washington politics, as well as other stories, and later in 2015 began writing a twice-a-month article about the lives of truck drivers.
He has called attention to their day-to-day struggles,[15] [16] [17] health, [18] [19] safety, [20] [21] working conditions [22] public perceptions [23] and personal lives.
Aside from recently-published humor pieces in The Haven [25] and Extra Newsfeed, A former BusinessWeek Correspondent, his work has appeared in the Washington Post, [26] Los Angeles Times [27] and Information Week.